“ Palm wasn’t Apotheker’s acquisition. It was Hurd’s. And the PC business wasn’t why Apotheker took the job. Apotheker’s acquisition was announced this week, coincident with the news that HP wants out of the PC and device business: Autonomy — a company I’d never heard of before but which more or less sounds like a rival to SAP.
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I wonder if this will give displaced Palm and HP PC guys room to start their own business? If they aren’t saddled by “Enterprise Consulting” management, they might be able to put out great products again.
